Tourists stroll within the flooded Venice landmark Piazza San Marco (Saint Mark Square) all over a high-water (Acqua Alta) alert on October 29, 2018, in Venice as the town is inundated by way of near-record flooding and ferocious storms. Miguel MEDINA / AFP

After a river burst its banks, the our bodies of the circle of relatives including kids elderly one, 3 and 15 have been found out within the coastal the town of Casteldaccia east of the capital Palermo.

Rescue products and services mentioned the home the place they have been spending the weekend was once submerged in water and dirt. The different sufferers’ ages ranged from 32 to 65.

Three members of the family controlled to flee, one by way of mountain climbing a tree the place he stayed for greater than two hours, the Agi information company reported.

“I lost everything, I have nothing left, just my daughter,” one of the most survivors, 35-year-old Giuseppe Giordano, instructed newshounds.

His wife, two different kids, his oldsters, brother, and sister, his nephew and the boy’s grandmother all died, he mentioned.

After flying over Casteldaccia on Sunday, Sicilian prosecutor Ambrogio Cartosio described scenes of “total disaster”.

Officials have opened an investigation to decide whether or not homes constructed close to the river had complied with protection norms.

In a separate incident in Sicily, a 44-year-old man was once discovered useless in his automobile close to Vicari, additionally within the Palermo area.

He were attempting to succeed in a carrier station, the place he was once the executive, to help a colleague trapped there. A 20-year-old passenger within the automobile with him remains to be missing.

Rescue staff also are in search of a physician, 40, pressured by way of the storms to desert his automobile at the highway close to the city of Corleone after seeking to pressure to paintings on the clinic there.

Two folks, a man and a woman, died after their condo automobile was once swept away by way of a torrent within the area of Agrigente, rescuers mentioned.

Violent winds and robust rain had killed a minimum of 20 folks this week round Italy, particularly within the north.

Two have been reported killed on Friday, including a 62-year-old Germany vacationer struck by way of lightning in Sardinia.

Six areas remain on excessive alert for storms.

The critical climate has brought about large harm and disruption. Trees in sprawling mountainside forests within the northeast of the rustic have been flattened like matchsticks by way of violent winds.

“It’s like after an earthquake,” mentioned the governor of the Veneto area, Luca Zaia. “Thousands of hectares of forest were razed to the ground, as if by a giant electric saw.”

On Sunday, after flying over the realm with Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, Zaia mentioned the storms had destroyed 100,000 hectares (250,000 acres) of pine woodland in all.

Salvini posted pictures of the devastation in a chain of tweets Sunday after additionally flying over the Alpine the town of Belluno.